Thank you everyone for your kind comments about my post about my step-grandson's death this past week. Of course no one is ever prepared for a random tragedy like this, but these situations have the ability to bring families together and to bring out the best in people. I'm very proud of how my two twenty something year old children stepped up and became helpful and responsible in ways that had never been required of them before, from the big things like calling the coroner's office and LA Metro during the search to the small things like helping with the younger children while the parents and older aunts and uncles grieved. All the drama will all be over next week after the memorial service, but I will always remember having seen an enduring transformation in my children.
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Friday, July 2, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
A New Year's Day
Ah, finally the whole Christmas thing is over.
The wreath and tree are gone, the ornaments are boxed, the poinsettias have wilted and the the children's Christmas stockings that I painstakingly needlepointed what seems like a million years ago are carefully put away.
Looking at those stockings just leaves me with a feeling of wonder...that my children have grown up so quickly and my days of needlepoint are long over.
And that time is passing so quickly and it is already 2010.
The wreath and tree are gone, the ornaments are boxed, the poinsettias have wilted and the the children's Christmas stockings that I painstakingly needlepointed what seems like a million years ago are carefully put away.
Looking at those stockings just leaves me with a feeling of wonder...that my children have grown up so quickly and my days of needlepoint are long over.And that time is passing so quickly and it is already 2010.
Friday, February 13, 2009
A Little Valentine's Day Bundle of Love!
And the inappropriate babymaking continues.
We go from news of the psycho-media whore with her 14 IVF children and no means of support other than the already bankrupt State of California to...
Baby-faced boy Alfie Patten is father at 13
Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.
We go from news of the psycho-media whore with her 14 IVF children and no means of support other than the already bankrupt State of California to...
Baby-faced boy Alfie Patten is father at 13
Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.
The idea of a 14 year old girl screwing a 4 ft tall 12 year old boy....who looks 8 years old....is just so......ewwwwww.
The good news is
They are living with Penny, Chantelle’s jobless dad Steve, 43, and her five brothers in a rented council house in Eastbourne. The family live on benefits.
At least they are in the UK and the State of California doesn't have to pick up the tab.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Serial Babymaker - Enough Already With The Fecundity!
I like kids as much as the next person...and I admire couples who choose to have big families.
In fact I have three friends who each have five kids.
The key thing about these friends who have chosen to have large families is that they are in stable marriages where the women are stay at home moms...
and there are more than enough assets to support the kids.
So what's up with this nutcase woman, Nadya Suleman, in Whittier California, with the octuplets?
How is it that a fertility clinic would implant 8 eggs into an unmarried woman who already has 6 kids ages 7 and under?
According to the news reports this mother has no visible means of support other than her parents who lost their own house to foreclosure.
Which leads to the question of whether or not she has a psychological disorder
Little psychological research has been conducted on the reasons some mothers seem hooked on repeated pregnancies. David Diamond, a co-director for the Center for Reproductive Psychology in San Diego, said mothers can be drawn to repeat pregnancies for a number of reasons, with some finding the experience so satisfying they choose to become surrogates.
Diane G. Sanford, a psychologist and author specializing in women's reproductive mental health, said while she doesn't know much about Nadya Suleman's background, women that have obsessive-compulsive disorder can become fixated on different obsessions.
"Her obsession centers around children, having children and being a mother," she said. "To what degree are her esteem and identity based on being a mom, and why has this from a young age been such a preoccupation of hers?"
Disorder or not... there is an huge ethical question involved.
Who in the hell were her fertility doctors?
Angela Suleman told reporters Friday that doctors implanted far fewer than eight embryos, but they multiplied. Experts said this could be possible since Nadya Suleman's system has likely been hyperstimulated for years with fertilization treatments and drugs.
The news that the octuplets' mother already had six children sparked an ethical debate. Some medical experts were disturbed to hear that she was offered fertility treatment, and troubled by the possibility that she was implanted with so many embryos.
In fact I have three friends who each have five kids.
The key thing about these friends who have chosen to have large families is that they are in stable marriages where the women are stay at home moms...
and there are more than enough assets to support the kids.
So what's up with this nutcase woman, Nadya Suleman, in Whittier California, with the octuplets?How is it that a fertility clinic would implant 8 eggs into an unmarried woman who already has 6 kids ages 7 and under?
According to the news reports this mother has no visible means of support other than her parents who lost their own house to foreclosure.
Which leads to the question of whether or not she has a psychological disorder
Little psychological research has been conducted on the reasons some mothers seem hooked on repeated pregnancies. David Diamond, a co-director for the Center for Reproductive Psychology in San Diego, said mothers can be drawn to repeat pregnancies for a number of reasons, with some finding the experience so satisfying they choose to become surrogates.
Diane G. Sanford, a psychologist and author specializing in women's reproductive mental health, said while she doesn't know much about Nadya Suleman's background, women that have obsessive-compulsive disorder can become fixated on different obsessions.
"Her obsession centers around children, having children and being a mother," she said. "To what degree are her esteem and identity based on being a mom, and why has this from a young age been such a preoccupation of hers?"
Disorder or not... there is an huge ethical question involved.
Who in the hell were her fertility doctors?
Angela Suleman told reporters Friday that doctors implanted far fewer than eight embryos, but they multiplied. Experts said this could be possible since Nadya Suleman's system has likely been hyperstimulated for years with fertilization treatments and drugs.
The news that the octuplets' mother already had six children sparked an ethical debate. Some medical experts were disturbed to hear that she was offered fertility treatment, and troubled by the possibility that she was implanted with so many embryos.
And I don't know how much it costs to deliver one baby today.....but I remember that it was thousands of dollars 2o something years ago when my son was born.
The eight babies _ six boys and two girls _ were delivered by cesarean section weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Forty-six physicians and staff assisted in the deliveries.
Some 46 physicians and staff!
So who paid for this woman's delivery...insurance....her parents.....some mysterious trust fund.....The State of California?
And how is this woman going to support her litter of 14?
Aid to Families with Dependent Children perhaps?
ps...sorry about using the word fucundity when i meant fecundity
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